Young Writers

Author : Linda Dorn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003842038
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scaffolding Young Writers written by Linda Dorn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of teaching writing is to create independent and self-motivated writers. When students write more often, they become better at writing. They acquire habits, skills, and strategies that enable them to learn more about the craft of writing. Yet they require the guidance and support of a more knowledgeable person who understands the writing process, the changes over time in writing development, and specific techniques and procedures for teaching writing. In Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach , Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos present a clear road map for implementing writers' workshop in the primary grades. Adopting an apprenticeship approach, the authors show how explicit teaching, good models, clear demonstrations, established routines, assisted teaching followed by independent practice, and self-regulated learning are all fundamental in establishing a successful writers' workshop. There is a detailed chapter on organizing for writers' workshop, including materials, components, routines, and procedures. Other chapters provide explicit guidelines for designing productive mini-lessons and student conferences. Scaffolding Young Writers also features: An overview of how children become writers; Analyses of students' samples according to informal and formal writing assessments Writing checklists, benchmark behaviors, and rubrics based on national standards Examples of teaching interactions during mini-lessons and writing conferences Illustrations of completed forms and checklists with detailed descriptions, and blank reproducible forms in the appendix for classroom use Instruction is linked with assessment throughout the book, so that all teaching interactions are grounded in what children already know and what they need to know as they develop into independent writers.

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780688132286
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling Lies for Fun & Profit written by Lawrence Block and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career. From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline and "creative procrastination," through coping with rejections, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit is an invaluable sourcebook of information. It is a must read for anyone serious about writing or understanding how the process works.

Author : 826 Valencia (Organization)
Publisher : 642 Things to
ISBN 13 : 9781452127842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Hundred Forty-two Things to Write about written by 826 Valencia (Organization) and published by 642 Things to. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your creative juices flowing with this collection of smart, funny, and thought-provoking writing prompts. Open to any page to be inspired, to express yourself, and to jump-start your literary genius.

Author : Susan Harris MacKay
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325120348
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story Workshop written by Susan Harris MacKay and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even our youngest students have lots of stories to tell, whether real or imagined. How can we create entry points for writing, so that all writers feel confident and motivated to share their stories? How can we establish a classroom community of beginning writers where equity, empathy, and compassion become part of the process and vital by-products of story writing? Enter story workshop, a structure for early literacy that amplifies the relationship between play, art, and writing. Children develop ideas and stories through choices of art materials. By creating images through play, story workshop invites children to explore the "amazingness" (Nisa, age 10) of their ideas in a variety of art forms. "Through their stories," Susan writes, "students share the meaning they make of their experiences in the world." Children in every classroom environment feel empowered to transition from play to pencil as they add words to their stories. Story Workshopincludes an abundance of classroom videos, photos, and student samples that illustrate what is possible when children use words, colors, textures, shapes and all kinds of materials to create the stories they want to tell. Watch how students' imaginations soar, their love of writing blossoms, and their connections with one another become the focal point of your classroom.

Author : Colum McCann
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399590811
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Young Writer written by Colum McCann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them. These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

Author : Kathy Henderson
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582970578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Writer's Guide to Getting Published written by Kathy Henderson and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years the Market Guide for Young Writers has been the perfect resource for kids who want to get published. Now, it's been revised, updated, expanded and renamed for the young writers of the 21st century! They'll find: * 45 market and 57 contest listings * profiles of professional editors and young writers, including early work from Stephen King and Jewel * directions for formatting plays and scripts * tips with important information, warnings and resource alerts In all, kids will find the kind of material each organization wants, the editor's or sponsor's remarks and suggestions, what kids can expect in the way of pay, contest rules, prizes and more. Kathy Henderson is also the author of What Would We Do Without You?, Great Lakes: A New True Book, I Can Be a Farmer, and other books for young children. She lives in Lexington, Michigan.

Author : Noella Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317200942
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 written by Noella Mackenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world comes to grips with what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century, Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 provides practitioners with the skills and knowledge they need to support young children effectively as they learn to write. Interweaving theory and research with everyday practice, the book offers guidance on all aspects of writing, from creating multimodal texts and building children’s vocabulary, to providing support for children who find writing particularly challenging. With appropriate strategies to develop young children’s writing from an early age included throughout, the book discusses the role of oral language in early writing in detail and explores the key relationships between ‘drawing and talking’, ‘drawing and writing’ and ‘drawing, talking and writing’. Each chapter also features samples of writing and drawing to illustrate key points, as well as reflective questions to help the reader apply ideas in their own settings. Further topics covered include: progressions in children’s writing writing in the pre-school years developing authorial skills developing editorial skills teaching writing to EAL learners. Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 is a unique resource that will help early childhood educators, early years school teachers, specialist practitioners working with very young children, and students enrolled in Early Childhood or Primary Studies courses to boost their confidence in teaching young learners as they become writers.

Author : Zoi A. Philippakos
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462540554
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Strategic Young Writers Through Genre Instruction written by Zoi A. Philippakos and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chapter 1 contains a definition and explanation of genre-based strategy instruction with self-regulation for kindergarten through grade 2. In Chapter 2, we discuss writing purposes and the writing process, and we provide explanations about how to make connections between reading and writing under the larger umbrella concept of genre. In Chapter 3, we explain the strategy for teaching strategies, which is the instructional blueprint for using this book and for the development of additional genre-based lessons. Chapters 4 to 6 are instructional chapters and include the lessons and resources for responses to reading, opinion writing, procedural writing, and story writing. Chapter 7 includes guidelines for sentence writing and application of oral language in grammar instruction"--

Author : Roy Peter Clark
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to Write written by Roy Peter Clark and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free to Write offers hundreds of practical ideas on how to turn elementary and middle school students into better writers and learners.

Author : Vicki Spandel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780132685856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Young Writers written by Vicki Spandel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From highly acclaimed author Vicki Spandel comes the most comprehensive exploration of six-trait writing from the inside out, in terms teachers and their students can understand. In response to primary teachers' requests for ways to use the six-trait approach to writing with K--3 students, this book is the result of years of analysing primary writing, watching primary writers at work, and talking with teachers and students to see just how the traits show themselves in the work of our youngest writers. Unlike other books on the six traits, this one shows teachers exactly how to teach traits in context, as an integral part of writing process and writing workshop. Together, these three elements-traits, process, and workshop-combine to place young writers on a path of unprecedented success. Designed to give practicing and new teachers a more in-depth understanding of the writing process and how it connects to the six traits, while encouraging them to write continuously with students and model their own personal writing process, the book is a goldmine of activities, strategies, and lesson ideas ideal for use in the K--3 classroom or as part of a study group.